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The Bear Saw · Seric

The Bear Saw · Seric
EXERCISE 3 OF 68
Groove AE -- Outro
25 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
PART L
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART S
PART AA
OUTRO
9 groovesBAESGI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Bear Saw on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, toms through bars 9-10 and hi-hat through bars 11-12, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 4 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x-------x-|
The Bear Saw -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 28 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, S -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 11 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Bear Saw?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Bear Saw hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Bear Saw?

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 28 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED